How to Report Article Plagiarism using Google Adsense

Have you had an article used without permission on a site featuring Google Adsense? If the site is unreachable or has ignored your demands to remove your content from their site here is how you can report plagiarism!

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Your first step should always be to try notify the site using your content that they are not authorized to do so that it is considered plagiarism and ask them to remove it immediately.
   
   (For the following steps you must be logged into your Google Account - if you don't have one it is free to sign up)

2. Then to report the plagiarism -or unauthorized use of your content - your first step is to visit Google's Help Center (link below in resources) and read through the thread and instructions on Google's site labeled "How do I report a copyright infringement by an AdSense publisher".
   
   This will walk you through the steps on reporting the copyright infringement violation.

3. You may also be able to report your plagiarized content as a violation of "Google Webmasters Guidelines"
   
   To do this use their "Report Spam" tool (link below in resources) to notify Google of the violation and report plagiarism. Be sure to provide clear information and the links to the page where the plagiarized information is located.

Resources

• Google Spam Report
• Google Adsense Help Center

[femwriter]

on 9/26/2009 This is a very informative article, thanks for writing this one. 5* plus recommendation

[scooter1]

on 9/18/2009 I too am a victim. But I filed a DMCA complaint with Google :-)
Good info 5* and a recommendation

~Scooter

[CCrock]

on 6/29/2009 Thanks. I just found an article of mine posted on at least 5 other sites. (all by the same person!)

[AllFYB]

on 3/10/2009 Thank you for this. I just found an article of mine on Answer How To and it is very disturbing.